Landon Cassill | |||||||
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![]() Cassill at the 2015 Toyota/Save Mart 350
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Born |
Cedar Rapids, Iowa |
July 7, 1989 ||||||
Awards | 2008 NASCAR Nationwide Series Rookie of the Year | ||||||
Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series career | |||||||
229 races run over 8 years | |||||||
Car no., team | No. 34 (Front Row Motorsports) | ||||||
2016 position | 29th | ||||||
Best finish | 29th (2016) | ||||||
First race | 2010 Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400 (Michigan) | ||||||
Last race | 2017 Kobalt 400 (Las Vegas) | ||||||
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NASCAR Xfinity Series career | |||||||
116 races run over 8 years | |||||||
2015 position | 18th | ||||||
Best finish | 12th (2014) | ||||||
First race | 2007 Gateway 250 (Gateway) | ||||||
Last race | 2015 Ford EcoBoost 300 (Homestead) | ||||||
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NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career | |||||||
8 races run over 2 years | |||||||
Best finish | 31st (2008) | ||||||
First race | 2008 O'Reilly Auto Parts 250 (Kansas) | ||||||
Last race | 2011 NextEra Energy Resources 250 (Daytona) | ||||||
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Statistics current as of March 12, 2017. |
Landon Douglas Cassill (born July 7, 1989) is an American professional driver. He currently competes full-time in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 34 Ford Fusion for Front Row Motorsports.
Cassill was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and began racing on a quad when he was 3 years old. Cassill moved to go-karts. He finished second in the Pro Kart Tour at Atlanta Motor Speedway at age 10. The following year, he earned his first of two Kart Series national championships. Cassill won four International Kart Federation (IKF) championships, some on dirt and some on asphalt.
In 2000, Cassill competed in three different classes: two karting and a midget class. He won all three state championships on the same night. Cassill won four more state championships at the Newton Kart Klub in Newton, Iowa in 2001. He then started racing in a modified at the half mile Hawkeye Downs.
He was racing in the ASA Late Model Series (ASALMS) in 2003 while he was in high school at Jefferson High School in Cedar Rapids. He has also raced in legend, , and late model racecars. Other series include the American Speed Association and the CRA Super Series.
At age 16, he became the youngest winner in ASALMS history when he won at Lake Erie Speedway on June 9, 2006; holding the record until Erik Jones surpassed him at age 14 in 2010. On July 3, Cassill won his second ASALMS race, this time in a Southern Division race at South Georgia Motorsports Park near Cecil, Georgia. The win made him the first driver to win in both the Northern and Southern Divisions. He won his first Challenge Division race at I-70 Speedway on July 8 to become the first driver to win in all three divisions. He finished second in the Challenge Division points behind Kelly Bires, and eleventh in the Northern Division despite starting in half of the races.